PHP Ajax Cookbook

Milan Sedliak, R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah , Roshan Bhattarai

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Learn how to develop and deploy iPhone web and native apps.
Optimize the performance of Ajax applications.
Build dynamic websites with faster response from the server using the asynchronous call feature of PHP Ajax.
Using Ajax allows quick and efficient access of data from the server, thus precluding a total web page refresh.
Leverage the power of PHP Ajax using practical recipes with example codes.

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 340 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : December 2011
ISBN : 1849513082
ISBN 13 : 978-1-84951-308-1
Author(s) : Milan Sedliak, R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah , Roshan Bhattarai
Topics and Technologies : All Books, AJAX, Cookbooks, Open Source, PHP

Preface
Chapter 1: AJAX Libraries
Chapter 2: Basic Utilities
Chapter 3: Useful Tools Using jQuery
Chapter 4: Advanced Utilities
Chapter 5: Debugging and Troubleshooting
Chapter 6: Optimization
Chapter 7: Implementing Best Practices to Build Ajax Websites
Chapter 8: Ajax Mashups
Chapter 9: iPhone and Ajax
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: AJAX Libraries

Designing simple navigation using jQuery
Creating tab navigation
Designing components using Ext JS
Event handling in MochiKit
Building a tab navigation using Dojo
Building a chart application using YUI library
Loading dynamic content using jQuery slider
Creating an AJAX shopping cart using MooTools
Building an AJAX login form using prototype.js

Chapter 2: Basic Utilities

Validating a form using Ajax
Creating an autosuggest control
Making Form Wizards
Uploading a file using Ajax
Uploading multiple files using Ajax
Creating a five-star rating system
Building a PHP Ajax contact form with validation
Displaying a table in Ajax
Building Pagination using PHP and Ajax

Chapter 3: Useful Tools Using jQuery

Making tool tips using Ajax
Creating Autocomplete from a database
Building a tab navigation using jQuery
Rotating content
Creating an image slider
Creating pageless pagination
Loading images using Lightbox
Growing textarea using the jGrow plugin
HTML replacement of the select dropdown
Improving date selection with Datepicker
Drag-and-drop functionality
Ajax shopping cart
Sorting and filtering data
Adding visual effects and animations

Chapter 4: Advanced Utilities

Building an Ajax chat system using the Comet technique
Charting with JavaScript
Decoding CAPTCHA through canvas
Displaying data in a grid

Chapter 5: Debugging and Troubleshooting

Debugging with Firebug and FirePHP
Debugging with the IE developer toolbar
Avoiding the framework $ conflict
Using the anonymous function of JavaScript
Fixing memory leaks in JavaScript
Fixing memory leaks
Sequencing Ajax Requests
Cross Browser and Ajax
Beautifying JavaScript

Chapter 6: Optimization

Caching of objects
Getting optimization tips with YSlow
Speeding up JavaScript delivery through automatic compression and browser caching
Triggering JavaScript early/on DOM load
Lazy-loading of images
Optimizing Ajax applications automagically through Apache modules/Google mod_pagespeed

Chapter 7: Implementing Best Practices to Build Ajax Websites

Avoiding HTML markup-specific coding
Building secure Ajax websites
Building SEO-friendly Ajax websites
Preserving browser history or un-breaking the browser's back button
Implementing comet PHP and Ajax

Chapter 8: Ajax Mashups

Web services
XML-RPC
Creating and consuming web services using PHP
Using Flickr API with Ajax
Using Twitter API with Ajax
Translating text using Google Ajax API
Using Google Maps
Searching a location within a Google Map
Searching within XX km. radius of Google Maps with markers and Info window
Finding a city/country using IP address
Converting currencies using Ajax and PHP

Chapter 9: iPhone and Ajax

Building a touch version of a website (with jQTouch)
Leveraging HTML5 features in iPhone Ajax
Building native apps with PhoneGap
Speeding up a PhoneGap project
Building a currency conversion hybrid app

Index

Milan Sedliak

Milan Sedliak is a JavaScript specialist, jQuery and Cross-browser compatibility is one of his key strengths. He likes challenging tasks and he does everything he can to be at his best in this area. He has experience with all kinds of websites and a lot of technologies (eight+ years). Portfolios, company presentations, e-commerce, complicated reporting systems for telecommunication devices, PHP websites with MySQL or MS SQL, ASP.NET 3, 5 and 4 (C#) with MS SQL, etc. He has a lot of experience in international environments and is currently employed by Skype as a software engineer specialized in front-end web technologies and cross-browser compatibility. In the past he has worked at Hewlett-Packard, Interoute and Intertec Media Group.

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah is a very simple guy who first saw computers in 1998. He got addicted to programming and co-authored A to Z of C, a non-profit book on Turbo C/DOS programming, while pursuing Master of Computer Applications in The American College, Madurai. After graduation he joined Agriya http://www.agriya.com/, then a startup company, and coded in Perl, Visual Basic, Delphi and heavily on PHP. Currently he heads the projects division in Agriya, where he oversees challenging Web 2.0 sites development, web software products and labs initiatives. His goal at the workplace is to get big branding and coverage for his labs projects.

Roshan Bhattarai

Roshan Bhattarai holds a M. Sc. in IT degree and has previously worked in various IT companies in Nepal and India as a Web developer and Technical Lead. Currently, he co-owns and working as a CTO at Proshore. Roshan owns and authors at one of the popular web development related blog at http://roshanbh.com.np.

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What you will learn from this book

Understand Basic form validation and form handling tools
Learn Debugging and troubleshooting techniques to make your site perform even quicker
Integrate Web 2.0 APIs for Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and Twitter
Build chat application using Comet technology
Write optimized code using Ajax asynchronous calls to improve website responsiveness
Implement best practices to build SEO-friendly websites
Become a skilled iPhone app developer using Ajax

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In Detail

Ajax is the necessary paradigm in Web 2.0 sites. Most of the Web 2.0 sites are built with PHP and Ajax. Extending AJAX is about delivering front-end service for accessing back-end services in PHP in a quick and easy manner. With this book in hand, you will learn how to use the necessary tools for Ajaxification of websites and iPhones.

PHP AJAX cookbook will teach you how to use the combination of PHP AJAX as a powerful platform for websites or web applications. Using AJAX for Communication with Server leads to faster response with PHP at the back-end services. The combination of AJAX PHP has many features such as speeding up the user experience, giving your web client much quicker response time and letting the client browser retrieve data from the server without having to refresh the whole page. You will learn the nuances of optimization and debugging Ajax applications. Further, you will learn how to program Ajax on iPhone devices.

This book will teach you popular selector-based JavaScript followed by important concepts on debugging, optimization and best practices. There is a collection of recipes focused on creating basic utilities such as validating form using Ajax and creating a five star rating system. As jQuery is quite popular, useful tools and jQuery plugins like Ajax tooltips, tab navigation, autocomplete, shopping cart, and Ajax chat are covered subsequently. By the end of chapter 7 you will learn to visually speed up website responsiveness to building SEO-friendly Ajax websites. Also get to know about all popular Ajax webservices and APIs like Twitter, Facebook and Google Maps which are covered in Ajax Mashups. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to build iPhone apps using basic libraries and everyday useful Ajax tools.

Build rich interactive web 2.0 sites with rich standards and Mashups around PHP Ajax.

Approach

This book contains a collection of recipes with step-by-step directions to build SEO-friendly websites using standard Ajax tools. Each recipe contains behind-the-scene explanations to PHP Ajax questions.

Who this book is for

This book is an ideal resource for people who like to add Ajax features to websites and who prefer standards and best practices for building SEO-friendly websites. As the book covers advanced topics, readers need to be aware of basic PHP, JavaScript and XML features.